Maura Reynolds

Washington, D.C.

Deputy Ideas Editor at POLITICO

Deputy editor, Ideas, @POLITICOMagazine. Former LA Times, Bloomberg, CQ and AP.

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Fiona Hill Explains Trump, Musk and Why They Both Talk to Putin

Oct 28, 2024 | msn.com | Maura Reynolds

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‘Everything Is Subservient to the Big Guy’: Fiona Hill on Trump and America’s Emerging Oligarchy

Oct 28, 2024 | politico.com | Maura Reynolds

Thinking about Trump and Putin and Musk as fellow oligarchs helps explain why they all seem so enthralled with each other. As Hill noted, they are part of a very small group of men who control vast fortunes and vast political power that have global reach, and who prefer to deal with each other. “They aren’t driven by the people they represent or the companies that they represent, but by the peer group that they are in, which is an extraordinarily small group of people,” Hill told me.
The Real Russian Men That Threatened Vladimir Putin

Feb 17, 2024 | bundle.app | Jonathan Lemire |Alexander Ward |Maura Reynolds

missing its old sheen. Yet his eyes are the same as ever: They light up. In the video shot on Thursday, he jokes with a judge and a policeman. The last images of Alexei Navalny alive show him behind bars. He is a bit gaunt. His hair is shorter, I’m running out of money , he says, a well-compensated judge should lend me some . His captors laugh.
One of Navalny’s Closest Friends Mourns His Death, and Russia’s Future

Feb 17, 2024 | politico.com | Maura Reynolds

“Putin hated him,” she told me in an interview a few hours after hearing the news. “He was everything which Putin was not.”Albats was forced to flee Russia in August 2022 after she was accused of criticizing the Russian military, a new crime imposed by Putin’s regime to help crush dissent after he launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine two years ago. She’s now an associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.
What Putin Wants to Get Out of Tucker Carlson

Feb 8, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Maura Reynolds

"Putin’s goal is to weaken America. Putin has had it up to here with feeling that Russia is a second-class power compared to America," said Lionel Barber, the former editor of the Financial Times. | Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images Updated: 02/08/2024 12:17 PM EST Vladimir Putin doesn’t give many interviews to Westerners.
What It’s Like to Interview Putin - and How to Judge Tucker Carlson

Feb 8, 2024 | politico.com | Maura Reynolds

Barber says that he’ll be watching Carlson as closely as he’ll be watching Putin, a figure he describes as “a very icy character.”“I’m going to judge him first by the quality of the questions and whether his questions give the game away, show that he’s on Putin’s side,” Barber said.
Is Putin Winning In Ukraine? Fiona Hill Says, ‘He’s About To. And It’s on Us.’

Dec 12, 2023 | politico.com | Maura Reynolds

Hill is clear about her answer. A world in which Putin chalks up a win in Ukraine is one where the U.S.’s standing in the world is diminished, where Iran and North Korea are emboldened, where China dominates the Indo-Pacific, where the Middle East becomes more unstable and where nuclear proliferation takes off, among allies as well as enemies.
‘We’ll Be at Each Others’ Throats’: Fiona Hill on What Happens If Putin Wins

Dec 12, 2023 | news.yahoo.com | Maura Reynolds

It was nearly two years ago that Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and in recent months, the fighting appears to have ground to a stalemate. Aid from the United States has helped Ukraine get this far — but now Americans are asking, how long should they continue to support Ukraine in its war against Russia? At this point, just what are the stakes for the United States?